Books and Resources
Food Web of the Gulf of the Farallones
Activities
Penn, G. 1997. Coastal Awareness: A Resource Guide for Teachers. US Department of Commerce,
NOAA, Office of Public and Constituent Affairs/ Outreach Unit. Write to: 1305 East-West Highway,
Station 1W204, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
S.E.A. Lab: Marine Science for High School Students in Chemistry, Biology and Physics. UNC Sea Grant
Publication Unc-SF-90-01.
Regional Descriptions
LeBoef, B.J. and S. Kaza, 1985. Natural History of Año Nuevo. Boxwood Press, Pacific Grove, CA.
Monterey Bay Aquarium, 1997. Natural History of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. ISBN 9781878-244116. (Monterey Bay is just to the south of the Gulf of the Farallones.)
Schmieder, R.W., 1991. Ecology of an Underwater Island. Cordell Expeditions, Walnut Creek, CA.
(Cordell
Bank is just north of the Gulf of the Farallones.)
Textbooks
Castro, P. and M.E. Huber, 1997. Marine Biology. McGraw-Hill Companies. ISBN 0-697-24360-5.
Levinton, J.S. 1982. Marine Ecology. Prentice-Hall, Inc. New York.
Milne, D. 1995. Marine Life and the Sea. Wadsworth Publishing Co. ISBN 0-534-16314-9.
Sumich, J.L.,1996. Biology of Marine Life. WCB/McGraw-Hill Companies. ISBN 0-697-15989-2.
Selected Web Sites
Marine Biology and Ecology
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Marine Biology Glossary . . . http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/glossary.html
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Ocean Discovery Center Sea Life . . . http://www.odc.ucla.edu/html/body_odsea_life.html
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Marine Biology Learning Center . . . http://www.marinebiology.org/science.htm
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Pacific Biological Communities . . . http://bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/sitechar/bio.html
Food Web
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Ocean Link’s Food Web . . . http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/foodweb/foodweb.html
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Krill Fishery . . . http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/deep-ecology/2000/msg00155.html
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Food Web Game . . . http://www.mastep.sjsu.edu/lessons/webgame/home.html
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Food Web of Chesapeake Bay . . . http://www.chesapeakebay.net/info/ecointr6.cfm
Organisms
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Phytoplankton Ecology . . . http://www.mote.org/~pederson/phyto_ecol.phtml
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Introduction to Marine Botany . . . http://www.mbari.org/~conn/botany/
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Plankton Net . . . http://www.uoguelph.ca/zoology/ocean/index.htm
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Animal Sounds on the Net . . . http://members.tripod.com/Thryomanes/AnimalSounds.html
FARALLONES MARINE SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION
www.farallones.org
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Museum of Paleontology Marine Organisms…
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/topic/marinebio.html
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Seabird and Fish Research. . . http://www.absc.usgs.gov/research/seabird&foragefish/index.html
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Shorebirds ... http://migratorybirds.fws.gov/shrbird/shrbird.html
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Fish and Wildlife Endangered Species Resource . . . http://endangered.fws.gov/kids/index.html
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Modeling Crab Behavior … http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/~dean/model/model.cgi
Marine Mammals
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The Whale Net. . . http://whale.wheelock.edu/welcome.html
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Elephant Seals at Año Nuevo . . . http://parks.ca.gov/central/bayarea/ansr228.htm
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The Marine Mammal Center . . . http://www.tmmc.org/
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A Curriculum Unit on Whales on the Web . . . http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/Whales/
Other Issues
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El Niño Watch in California . . . http://cwatchwc.ucsd.edu/cgi-bin/elnino.cgi
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Harmful Algal Blooms. . . http://www.redtide.whoi.edu/hab/default.html
FARALLONES MARINE SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION
www.farallones.org